Bhima-Koregaon case: Supreme Court likely to give its verdict on arrest of five activists today
New Delhi, Sept 28 (IBNS): The Supreme Court on Friday might give its verdict on the plea by historian Romila Thapar and others who have been seeking the release of arrested five activists in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had reserved its verdict on Sept 20.
The counsel for both parties has completed their submissions on the issue.
Seeking the vacation of the Aug 29 order by which five activists were put under house arrest and seeking their custodial interrogation, the state police last month urged the court to permit it to take them in its (police) custody and interrogate them in accordance with the law.
Several rights activists, including Maoist ideologue Varavara Rao and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, were arrested by Pune Police in multi-city raids on Aug 28 in connection with the Dalit-upper caste violence in Bhima Koregaon in January this year, triggering strong reactions from the critics of the BJP-led government at the centre.
The raids were carried out in several cities like Delhi, Faridabad, Goa, Mumbai, Ranchi and Hyderabad.
The arrested activists are poet and writer Varavara Rao, lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, activists Arun Fereira, Gautam Navlakha and Vernon Gonsalves.
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